Open Bug 1801940 Opened 2 years ago Updated 5 months ago

Creates archives.msf and archive.msf by default, but all accounts archive to Local Folders Archive only - is one dispensible?

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Database, task)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Database
Version:
Thunderbird 102
Type:
task

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: sthoselitz, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [wontfix?])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

There are Archive.msf and Archives.msf in the profiles folder which cannot be removed - when you do so the programme just recreates them

Actual results:

As above

Expected results:

Get rid of one of these

Try Account Settings | Copies & Folders, and untick the "Keep archives...."

Summary: Creates Archives and Archive folders be default - and cannot be removed → Creates Archives and Archive folders by default - and cannot be removed

I have ticked the archive box because I archive in local folders, so if I untick this I will not be able to archive as required.

Do you have another identity which still uses the other standard Archive settings?

Thank you for the question - but I have double checked the identities and they are ALL set to only archive in local folders - and the other copies and folders settings are all the same in each of the identities.

Reporter,

  • If you open both files with text editor, what's the content?
  • What are the sizes of the two files?

As long as we don't needlessly duplicate your data by keeping two large files for the same purpose, tbh I think this is not important enough to spend resources on...

Type: defect → task
Component: Untriaged → Database
Flags: needinfo?(sthoselitz)
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
Summary: Creates Archives and Archive folders by default - and cannot be removed → Creates archives.msf and archive.msf by default, but all accounts archive to local folders Archive only - is one dispensible?
Whiteboard: [wontfix?]
Summary: Creates archives.msf and archive.msf by default, but all accounts archive to local folders Archive only - is one dispensible? → Creates archives.msf and archive.msf by default, but all accounts archive to Local Folders Archive only - is one dispensible?

Well that is a decision for you - but it still a bug!
There is no content in either archive.msf or archives.msf on imap because I archive in local folders - so they should not both be in my main imap account -- but there they are!

Flags: needinfo?(sthoselitz)

Can we allow for deletion the Imap folder with "special_use = \Archive" if there is another one active? Or add a way to remove this flag from a folder if the customer wants?

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